Allentonian Heads Association

Robert A. King of Allentown has been elected president of the National Industrial Distributors Association. He will be installed during its annual meeting May 21 in Washington, D.C.

The association serves 720 member companies in the U.S. and Canada.

King is chairman of the board of Wm. H. Taylor & Co. Inc. of Hanover Township, Lehigh County. He also is a Pennsylvania delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business.

Currently, King is first vice president of the Lehigh County Industrial Development Corp. He also is a director of the Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority, Union Bank & Trust Co. of Eastern Pennsylvania, Allentown Rotary Club Foundation and LEHIPAC, a local political action group.